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Focus on Kolkata, BJP trying to regain legacy of its ideologue Shyama Prasad Mookerjee ANI | Updated: Apr 15, 2021 19:24 IST
By Pragya Kaushika
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 15 (ANI): Seven decades after the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Shyama Prasad Mookerjee represented the Calcutta South East Lok Sabha constituency, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is engaged in a vigorous battle to preserve his ideological legacy by seeking to win the assembly constituencies that were part of the seat the party ideologue represented.
The BJP appears determined to contest assembly seats in Kolkata and its surroundings with renewed vigour and regain the glory that came with Jan Sangh winning the seat in the country s first Lok Sabha election.
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Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said nearly Rs 70,000 crore from the capital allocation of Rs 1.35 lakh crore in the defence budget would be reserved for domestic procurement and a second negative list of items for imports would be issued soon.
“The defence ministry has planned to invest about 63 per cent of the outlay for 2021-22, i.e. about Rs 70,221 crore, for domestic defence procurement during the period,” Singh said during a webinar on defence budget organised by the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM).
Overall, this year’s defence outlay is Rs 4.78 lakh crore, a nominal increase from Rs 4.71 lakh crore last year. The allocation for capital expenditure is Rs 1.35 lakh crore, up 19 per cent from last year’s Rs 1.13 lakh crore.
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